Grateful Dead Live at Red Rocks Ampitheatre on 1978-07-08
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- Publication date
- 1978-07-08 ( check for other copies)
- Topics
- Matrix, Soundboard, Roger Eichorn
- Collection
- GratefulDead
- Band/Artist
- Grateful Dead
- Resource
- DeadLists Project
Bertha-> Good Lovin', Dire Wolf, El Paso, It Must Have Been The Roses, Minglewood Blues, Ramble On Rose, Promised Land, Deal
Set 2
Samson & Delilah, Ship of Fools, Estimated Prophet-> The Other One-> Eyes Of The World-> Drums-> Wharf Rat-> Franklin's Tower-> Sugar Magnolia, E:Terrapin Station-> E: One More Saturday Night, E: Werewolves of London
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Song Title | Versions | Compilations | Covers |
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Getting Everything Just Exactly Perfect | |||
Bertha > | |||
Good Lovin' | |||
Dire Wolf | |||
El Paso | |||
It Must Have Been the Roses | |||
New Minglewood Blues | |||
Ramble On Rose | |||
[tuning] | |||
Promised Land | |||
Deal | |||
Samson & Delilah | |||
Ship of Fools | |||
Estimated Prophet > | |||
The Other One > | |||
Eyes of the World > | |||
Drums > | |||
Space > | |||
Wharf Rat > | |||
Franklin's Tower > | |||
Sugar Magnolia | |||
[crowd] | |||
Terrapin Station > | |||
One More Saturday Night | |||
[crowd] | |||
Werewolves of London |
Notes
General Notes:
- Thanks go to everyone who worked on and made available the sources used in this matrix. Obviously, this project would have been impossible without their prior efforts.
- For my money, 07/08/78 is a top-ten all-time show, perhaps even a top-five. Whereas a show like Cornell '77 showcases the Dead at a peak of cool, polished professionalism (one they wouldn't approach again until Fall '89-Spring '90), the final show of their Summer '78 tour reveals a group who has traded in cool polish for raw power. They stomp and tear and growl their way through a setlist that is quietly but pleasantly unusual, down to the triple encore, which ends with a rare version of "Werewolves of London."
The night kicks off with a breakneck "Bertha." The high energy established in the opener is kept up throughout the first set and into the second, which starts with a shimmering "Samson & Delilah." But the show catapults to the next level with Bobby's enigmatic pronouncement, "I'm moving to Australia." What follows is an extraordinary song-cycle that wends from a blistering "Estimated Prophet > Other One > Eyes of the World," through a novel early "Drums/Space," to a tour-de-force combination of "Wharf Rat > Franklin's Tower > Sugar Magnolia."
Then, as though wanting to launch into a whole new set, the boys proceed to trot out a "Terrapin Station" encore. It may not be the best "Terrapin" they ever played, but even so, it's quite an encore! And as though it weren't enough, they segue (literally without missing a beat) from "Terrapin" into "One More Saturday Night." Despite having already played a complete show (and then some!), they stay on for a thumping, guttural "Werewolves of London." They were obviously enjoying themselves and were in no hurry to leave the stage.
Truly, 07/08/78 is an epic night by any measure.
- Pre-show hilarity. "The bass isn't working because Phil Lesh is so stoned..." "Were you yelling 'China Cat' all last night? Somebody was. That was you! I heard you last night, yelling 'China Cat.' Down there."
Source Notes:
- The AUD copy of the second set is missing several chunks of music, as detailed in the source info. The AUD source was patched with the SBD; naturally, I cut those patches. The missing chunks are: (1) the first 20 seconds of "Ship of Fools," (2) 10 seconds of "Estimated Prophet," (3) 26 seconds of "Drums," and (4) 12 seconds of "Franklin's Tower."
- The SBD copy is missing about 49 seconds at the end of "Eyes."
- I only retained the empty space between songs that appears on the AUD copy.
Technical Notes:
- The sources were remastered and mixed in Logic Pro 9. Clean-up (mostly of clicks and pops in the AUD) was done using iZotope RX 3 Advanced. The sets were split in WaveLab LE 7. SBE's were fixed using Trader's Little Helper. Conversions to and from .flac, .shn, and .wav were done using dbPowerAmp.
- I speed- and pitch-corrected the AUD source using the iZotope Radius algorithm. Fine-tune syncing was done in Logic Pro 9.
- I ran the AUD source through iZotope RX's Declip function subsequent to speed-correcting it.
- The SBD source is kind of 'hot,' especially the second set. I considered trying to cool it down in iZotope RX (with Declip), but in the end I decided that anything I might do to that end would result in a net loss of sound quality. So the 'hotness' remains.
Roger Eichorn
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September 30, 2013
- Addeddate
- 2013-10-21 11:30:41
- Identifier
- gd1978-07-08.125797.mtx.eichorn.sbeok.t-flac16
- Lineage
- Unknown Mircophones => Unknown Tape Deck [Patch] => Nakamichi 550 [Dolby Encode] >> MAC Analog Sound Preservation: MAC >> Nakamichi DR-1 => Grace Design Lunatec V3 [Pre-Only] => Korg MR-1000 >> DSF [1-bit 5.6448 MHz Stereo] >> Korg MR-1000 => Korg AudioGate >> WAV [24/96] Taped By: Timothy Knight; matrix by Roger Eichorn
- Location
- Morrison, CO
- Run time
- 187:14.40
- Transferred by
- Matrix by Roger Eichorn
- Type
- sound
- Venue
- Red Rocks Ampitheatre
- Year
- 1978
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Reviews
Subject: As good as Ithaca
I kinda like the ' heavy' aud mix, too.
THANK YOU so much for this excellent contribution to the archive, tapers AND creator of the re master!
5/5⭐
Subject: beautiful show
The second set of this show is top 5 all time for me and stands right next to 5-8-77 for top shows of 77-78. Estimated->Other one-> Eyes of the world? Wharf Rat->Franklins-> Sugar Magnolia? And then a triple Encore of Terrapin->Saturday Night and the Werewolves of London? The song choices on this night are mega. they play almost a full hour after space ! the second set is 110 minutes of amazing music.
just as soon as u think they are headed to drums during estimated.. all the sudden ramps back up for the other one.. intense jam lands right into a high speed eyes of the world with gorgeous jerry solos throughout.
the playing is just out of control and intense all the way through. The bands playing in this second set is a freight train going so fast it could fly off the tracks at any minute, right on the edge of collapse and total annihilation, yet each time they bring you back safely. Incredible music all around this night in Colorado.
a few other favorites from this era are the previous night 7-7-78 and also 1-22-78, with the monumental OtherOne>CloseEncounter>St. Stephen (check it out!)
Subject: Check out the updated version...
I've made a new, less AUD-heavy copy of this matrix. I think it's better. If you want to check it out, it's here:
https://archive.org/details/gd1978-07-08.126239.mtx-redo.eichorn.sbeok.t-flac16
Subject: Sound is great!
Subject: Best of Both Worlds
Subject: *
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